Human energy / by Albert Abrams.

  • Albert Abrams
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Human energy / by Albert Abrams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sympathetic Irritation psychomotor region is rarely elicited if the end of the con- ducting cord is further distant than one-quarter inch from the region in question. SYMPATHETIC IRRITATION. The epoch-making work achieved by Dr. E. H. Pratt, with relation to the orificial reflexes prompted me to devise some diagnostic method whereby one could recognize sympathetic irritation, provoked by some anomaly of the orifices (rectum, urethra). In the norm, there is a discharge of energy from the 7th cervical and 1st lumbar spines. From the former situation the area discharging energy ex- tends on either side a distance of 3 cm. from the spinous process; in the latter situation (1st lumbar spine), it extends a distance of 2cm. from the spinous process on either side. In sympathetic irritation from orificial or other lesions implicating the sympathetic, a discharge of neutral energy may be obtained in the entire region of the dorsal vertebrae at a distance of 5.6 cm. on both sides from the spinous pro- cesses. In other words, no energy-discharge is elicited until the end of the wire attains a point 5.6 cm. distant from the spinous processes and this discharge is obtainable equidis- tant from the latter throughout the dorsal region. DISCHARGE OF ENERGY WITHOUT CONDUCTORS. There are many individuals notably temperamental ones, whose mere presence will evoke the stomach reflex. Let such a one, if a male, point his left finger at the region of the stomach of the subject and the stomach will imme- diately dull. A temperamental female will achieve the same object with her extended right finger. Let either one touch the 7th cervical spine (228, 469) with either finger and after the lapse of several seconds there
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